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Joseph Gordon-Levitt is pushing a bill that would END free speech on the internet, and he has absolutely no idea what he's talking about. [FREE SPEECH FRIDAY] Join the Patreon: ⁠ https://www.patreon.com/cw/taylorlorenz ⁠    Subscribe to my Substack:   ⁠ https://www.usermag.co ⁠    Section 230 is one of the most important laws in the history of the internet. It is often called “the law that cre...

White women have long been a core voting bloc for conservatives, so why are right wing media figures suddenly obsessed with attacking them? Support my independent journalism: 🙏 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/taylorlorenz     🗞️ Substack: https://www.usermag.co     In this episode, Crooked Media Hysteria's Erin Ryan joins me to break down the growing hatred towards white women in MAGA spa...

🚨 URGENT: Section 230 is under attack and it affects EVERY person who uses the internet. This is part 1 of my deep-dive series exposing the truth about the most important internet law ever created. Support my independent journalism: 🙏 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/taylorlorenz 🗞️ Substack: https://www.usermag.co Every single time you leave a comment, post a review, or send a message, you a...

The UK is rapidly becoming one of the most aggressive surveillance states in the democratic world, and many don't even realize it's happening. Support my independent journalism: 🙏 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/taylorlorenz       🗞️ Substack: https://www.usermag.co      [FREE SPEECH FRIDAY] The UK has officially slid into a dystopian surveillance state, and the rest of the world is n...

The MLM industry has rebranded for the TikTok era. Now, instead of hawking LuLaRoe leggings, women are paying $500 for PDFs on how to become micro influencers.  Support my independent journalism: 🙏 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/taylorlorenz     🗞️ Substack : https://www.usermag.co     The "hustle economy" is no longer about selling essential oils or leggings to your neighbors. A n...

To listen to the full episode and get other bonus content subscribe to my Patreon or Substack !  SUBSCRIBE TO MY PATREON : https://www.patreon.com/cw/taylorlorenz      Or, buy a paid subscription to my Substack : https://www.usermag.co   For a decade, r/LiveStreamFail (LSF) has been the "beating heart" of Twitch culture, but at what cost?  One former reddit moderator went viral recently...

The Internet as we know it is on trial. A major suit claiming social media addiction could give the government unprecedented power. Support my independent journalism: 🙏 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/taylorlorenz     🗞️ Substack: https://www.usermag.co     A landmark lawsuit in California claims that social media giants like Meta, TikTok, YouTube, and Snapchat are intentionally designing the...

China is winning the culture war: From "galvanized square steel" to drinking hot water, why is the entire internet suddenly looking more Chinese? Support my independent journalism: 🙏 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/taylorlorenz    🗞️ Substack: https://www.usermag.co    Over the past year, a massive cultural shift has taken place. From China-maxxing memes to TikTok migrations, Chines...

TO LISTEN TO THIS FULL EPISODE, SUBSCRIBE ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/cw/taylorlorenz     Support my independent journalism:  🙏 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/taylorlorenz     🗞️ Substack: https://www.usermag.co Last week, Brooklyn Beckham, the 26 year old son of Victoria and David Beckham, posted a 7 slide essay on Instagram Stories, accusing his parents of controlling his entire li...

[FREE SPEECH FRIDAY] Every single moment that you're online, you're feeding the data harvesting industry. Corporations then sell that data to the government, allowing them to target you for online speech, protesting, and more. Now, the government wants to build a single centralized platform where U.S. spy agencies and the government can easily buy highly private information about millions...

Matt Bernstein, Kat Tenbarge and I dig into what the 2016 nostalgia is really about.  Why is everyone suddenly obsessed with 2016? Hyper-saturated Instagram photos are back. The Snapchat puppy filter is everywhere again. Nostalgic edits are flooding TikTok. From the "King Kylie" era to Harambe, it feels like we’re collectively regressing. Support my independent journalism: 🙏 Patreon: ⁠⁠...

SUPPORT ME ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/cw/taylorlorenz   Or buy a paid subscription to my Substack newsletter to support my work!!!! 🙏 https://www.usermag.co   For decades, tech billionaires have sold us a shiny future powered by AI. But what if the future they’re building doesn’t include us? A disturbing ideology has quietly come to dominate Silicon Valley: the belief that we need to dis...

SUPPORT ME ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/cw/taylorlorenz       Buy a subscription to my Tech and Online Culture newsletter, User Magazine to support my work!!!! 🙏 https://www.usermag.co          ICE just bought a massively powerful new surveillance system that can monitor every single phone in your neighborhood, track the movements of those devices and their owners over time, and follow you...

SUPPORT ME ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/cw/taylorlorenz              Buy a subscription to my Tech and Online Culture newsletter, User Magazine to support my work!!!! 🙏 https://www.usermag.co         Until recently, Ashley St Clair was a star in the conservative influencer world. She built a large and powerful following by leaning into culture-war rhetoric and boosting MAGA policies. She w...

SUPPORT ME ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/c/taylorlorenz             Buy a subscription to my Tech and Online Culture newsletter, User Magazine to support my work!!!! 🙏 https://www.usermag.co        Every week it feels like Congress cooks up a new bad internet law. This week we're diving deep into the SCREEN Act. Framed as a child safety bill, this law is an insidious trojan horse for ma...

SUPPORT ME ON PATREON for ad-free and bonus episodes!!! https://www.patreon.com/cw/taylorlorenz   Buy a subscription to my Tech and Online Culture newsletter , User Magazine to support my work!!!! 🙏 https://www.usermag.co      Since Trump took office, ICE has rapidly transformed itself from an under the radar agency into an influencer-style media machine, churning out non-stop viral videos of tac...

<<< Free Speech Friday!!! >>> SUPPORT ME ON PATREON for ad-free and bonus episodes!!! https://www.patreon.com/c/taylorlorenz             Buy a subscription to my Tech and Online Culture newsletter, User Magazine to support my work!!!! 🙏 https://www.usermag.co        A few months ago, the UK's Online Safety Act went into effect, causing chaos across the internet. The UK gover...

SUPPORT ME ON PATREON: ⁠https://www.patreon.com/c/taylorlorenz⁠            Buy a subscription to my Tech and Online Culture newsletter, User Magazine to support my work!!!! 🙏 ⁠https://www.usermag.co⁠       Over the past few months, a 19 year old Looksmaxxing livestreamer called Clavicular has become inescapable online, collaborating with an ever growing cadre of massive influencers and conservati...

SUPPORT ME ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/c/taylorlorenz            Buy a subscription to my Tech and Online Culture newsletter, User Magazine to support my work!!!! 🙏 https://www.usermag.co   Why has everyone become so obsessed with game shows where the losers die!? Over the past decade, “The Hunger Games” became a multibillion-dollar media franchise. Netflix’s “Squid Game” took off, and Mr...

SUPPORT ME ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/c/taylorlorenz           Buy a subscription to my Tech and Online Culture newsletter, User Magazine to support my work!!!! 🙏 https://www.usermag.co        >>> Free Speech Friday <<<  Across the U.S. parents and lawmakers are calling for tech companies to verify users' ages online. They frame these efforts as a smart, reasonable,...

SUPPORT ME ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/c/taylorlorenz           Buy a subscription to my Tech and Online Culture newsletter, User Magazine to support my work!!!! 🙏 https://www.usermag.co     As Elon Musk's influence has grown, so too has a darker, more troubling side of his persona: his rampant egomania. Faiz Siddiqui is a former colleague of mine at The Washington Post and he's t...

[PATREON EXCLUSIVE] Subscribe on Patreon to listen to this and other bonus episodes of Power User!! SUPPORT ME ON PATREON .     Buy a subscription to my tech and online culture newsletter, User Magazine to support my work!!!! 🙏 Over the past few years, Silicon Valley startups have been becoming more and more dystopian. Crypto, gambling, AI friends, and other products that sound like they've b...

SUPPORT ME ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/c/taylorlorenz           Buy a subscription to my Tech and Online Culture newsletter, User Magazine to support my work!!!! 🙏 https://www.usermag.co       <<< FREE SPEECH FRIDAY>>> People cannot stop claiming they are "addicted" to social media. Lawmakers continue to compare social media use to drug or alcohol addictions, w...

SUPPORT ME ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/c/taylorlorenz          Buy a subscription to my Tech and Online Culture newsletter, User Magazine to support my work!!!! 🙏 https://www.usermag.co      After Charlie Kirk was killed in front of a crowd of students in Utah, right wing influencers and pundits claimed that his killing would result in millions of Charlie Kirks. Almost immediately, mini m...

SUPPORT ME ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/c/taylorlorenz         Buy a subscription to my Tech and Online Culture newsletter, User Magazine to support my work!!!! 🙏 IT'S FREE SPEECH FRIDAY!!!!! For years, the United States villainized China for its restrictive internet landscape and mass censorship of online speech. But lately, things are changing. The U.S. and other western countries are ca...